More diffuse vision, hearing, and touch sensation, a lot of it simultaneous today. I was standing still in an area full of people at an event for several hours today, almost all of it with diffuse vision "turned on." I noticed so many more things than I normally do with normal (focused, binocular) vision where attention moves only from point to point, whereas it seemed that with diffuse vision (unfocused, no binocular) I could "see" all around me from left to right more or less simultaneously.
Several things struck me:
1) the use of diffuse vision: I was training my mind to "see" things around me using my mind to move its attention from spot to spot rather than by making physical changes to where my eyes were directed.
2) this could be very useful in entering dreams during WILD or DEILD or dream start DILDs where images suddenly occur. With diffuse vision, you can give your attention to your surroundings and notice things without "focusing" on them: be aware, but not "intensely aware" of them. Since dream images tend to vanish if I "look" at them (at least for me I find this), this could help in entering dreams.
In fact I had a late morning dozing LD today where a dream image made it all the way into a dream, I wished something to happen then it happened, and I woke up from excitement of my "wish" coming true. I was having lots and lots of HI / dreamlets forming and I was trying simply to "let them be" rather than focus on them.
3) I found that standing with diffuse vision (and paying attention to auditory and body sensations at the same time) for extended times seemed to put me in a sort of light trance state. I thought this would be a good time for auto-suggestion so I told myself I was a great lucid dreamer and that I am aware of all the dreams that I have.
edit: I recall that when HI start forming, I invariably activate my physical eyes to "look" at images off to the side, which tends to wake me up and disturb the forming dream. With diffuse vision this should help prevent that dream-busting reaction.
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